Law Enforcement Only

Labor trafficking. We know it exists, but it remains elusive. Why? The truth is little has changed in our collective ability to tackle labor over the past 20 years. We continue to use the same tactics year after year, with the same frustrating results - investigation numbers are consistently low, and labor prosecutions are rare. The system is broken, we need a new approach.

Law Enforcement Only

While there is much talk about being trauma informed, how do we put these principles to practice in the real world? Join Advocating Opportunity and Finding Hope Consulting for a training on techniques to work with diverse individuals and communities utilizing neuroscience based approaches. We will place behavior into context culturally with brain-based interventions to help improve cooperation, participation, and outcomes.

Two Day Foundational Training

When a survivor of complex trauma, like human trafficking, demonstrates challenging behavior, those attempting to assist the victim can often fall into a cycle of frustration and power struggle, resulting in a lose/lose outcome. Neuroscience is demonstrating that some of the most challenging behaviors connected with assisting trauma survivors are actually biologically based fear responses more related to fear-based dysregulation than intractable behavior.

Eight 2-hour mini sessions.

Neuroscience is demonstrating that some of the most challenging behaviors (like lying, manipulating, and aggression) demonstrated by trauma survivors are biologically based fear responses more related to fear-based dysregulation than intractable behavior. We will examine how our traditional beliefs about challenging behaviors impact our own regulation and learn to set aside power struggles to explore how the brain can heal itself. In this series we will practice brain-based strategies and interventions to help individuals of all ages work to replace challenging behaviors with safe, healing connections.

Narrowing Down the Universe Using Data

This workshop will define “data driven approach” for participants, and guide them through important steps of such an approach including: identifying available data; understanding how to interpret different data sets and their limits; and how to use the data their agency collects in concert with publicly available data to develop or fine tune strategies for outreach, victim identification, training, and threat assessment.

Labor Exploitation & Decent Work

This session will engage participants in a discussion about the meaning of exploitation and decent work. The goal is to think about the spectrum of work conditions, and recognize how many things that we might think of as exploitative or indecent conditions are actually common and legal. In doing so will be able to better understand and frame how trafficking happens, and steps that can be taken to address the upstream causes.

Force, Fraud, and Confusion

In the last two decades, little has changed in our collective ability to identify and investigate cases of labor trafficking and provide support to victims. The existing framework is broken, we need a new approach. Building off the first session, “Labor Trafficking: A New Framework,” this second session in our series will focus on the definition of coercion. Many forms of coercion are subtle, and traffickers often use forms of nonviolent coercion that are difficult to identify. The session will take participants on an in-depth journey to better understand coercion, through presentation, discussion, and legal case examples.

Breaking the Cycles Driving All Forms of Human Trafficking

Trauma does not discriminate. It affects individuals of all ages, developmental levels, and backgrounds. When a survivor of complex trauma, like labor or sex trafficking, demonstrates challenging behavior, those attempting to assist the victim can often fall into a cycle of frustration and power struggle, resulting in a lose/lose outcome. In this training, we explore historical, cultural, and environmental factors, how they impact us across generations, and drive the seemingly confusing actions of trafficking survivors.

A New Framework

In the last two decades, little has changed in our collective ability to identify and investigate cases of labor trafficking and provide support to victims. The existing framework is broken, we need a new approach. This session offers a new framework for addressing labor trafficking. Developed based on ten years in the field working with service providers, law enforcement, task forces, policymakers, and community members, this new framework offers four steps for building better capacity to understand and respond to labor trafficking in any jurisdiction.

Race & The American Legal System

This unique 10-part virtual and interactive series takes an in-depth look at the origins of race in America, how the idea of race was constructed and refined in American society, the regulatory history of race, and the modern legacy of that history. Participants will understand how that history has contributed to our present racial climate and what we can do as individuals and organizations to champion racial equity.